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Starting out, looking for hardware, suggestions needed

Postby Stryyder » Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:31 pm

Ok, here's the deal. I've been working on AMVs with WMM for a while now and now I have premier but I hate working with hand-me-down clips downloaded from someone who downloaded it from 10 others so now it looks like crap. I'm looking to get a Capture device and I need suggestions on which one to get. Right now I'm looking at Adaptec PCI AVC-2010. Any pros or cons?
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Postby Kariudo » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:35 pm

why do you need a capture card?
if you want to use downloaded footage...don't
if you want to use dvds, you need a dvd player.
the rest of the software that you need can be found in the amvapp
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Postby Stryyder » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:06 pm

Well, along with DVD footage I also have VHS/Video game footage I would like to use.
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Postby Kariudo » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:41 pm

yeah, you'll need a capture card for the vhs footage
there's a guide on how to use video game footage, just click on the how-to-guides button in your members main page.
[url=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6872565&type=product&id=1095941349358]Plextor ConvertX Digital Video Converter
Model: PX-AV100U[/url] this seems to do the same thing, for $20 less
other than that I can't really say much about capture cards ^_^;
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Postby Keeper of Hellfire » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:07 am

Kariudo wrote:[url=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6872565&type=product&id=1095941349358]Plextor ConvertX Digital Video Converter
Model: PX-AV100U[/url] this seems to do the same thing, for $20 less

No. That converter uses a software MPEG2 encoder. You'd need a really strong comp to get a full res vid. The Adaptec solution has a hardware MPEG2 encoder, so it's ensured that you can capture in full res. I think that feature is worth the $20 difference.
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Postby Stryyder » Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:29 pm

Thanks for your suggestions, now I just have to fix my dvd player. Stupid drive won't open. Any further suggestions are welcome.
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Postby Purge » Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:27 pm

if you have a DV camera with A/V input and firewire connection to your PC then you can just use that to capture footage from the VHS
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Postby gangstaj8 » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:06 pm

Are there DV camcorders out there that actually use VHS???
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